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BUILD A CAREER FOCUSED               GIVE YOUR CAREER A

       ON MAKING LIVES BETTER.              HEAD START.
       Health and wellness offers multiple career   The on-the-job experience provided
       paths in the U.S. and abroad. You might   by internships is required in some
       work with young children, teenagers, adults   programs and encouraged in most others.
       or senior citizens — or you may select a   Increasingly, graduate and professional
       career that involves working with people   schools in health areas prefer them too.
       throughout their lives.              Oregon State offers preceptorships in
       Traditional health professions such as   public health and pre-medicine programs,
       medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy   where you spend time observing patient
       and veterinary medicine all offer rewarding   care, community health, office procedures
       careers, but there are also growing   and other aspects of your preceptor’s work.
       opportunities in public health, athletics,   Your professors, department and college,
       nutrition and the assisted-living industry.   as well as the Oregon State Career
       Careers in these areas require further   Development Center, can help you apply
       education in graduate, professional or   for an internship.
       medical school.
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